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    Blu-ray BD+ crypto tech to be cracked by year's end?

    31st October 2007 11:39 GMT

    Bullish optical disc decryption software developer Slysoft has claimed it has cracked Blu-ray Disc's BD+ copy-protection technology, though the most recent version of its disc hacking tool only extends to the AACS anti-rip mechanism.

    Slysoft announced AnyDVD 6.1.9.3 earlier this week. Among its features, the developer claimed, is the ability to circumvent the latest incarnation of AACS' Media Key Block, aka MKBv4, a vital part of HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc encryption.

    In a statement, Slysoft's head of development, James Wong, said: "We already found a way to crack BD+ and we have just turned to fine-tuning." The technique, which the Blu-ray Disc format incorporates in addition to AACS, is "on the verge of being circumvented", Slysoft said, adding it expects to ship a version of its software that can do just that "by the end of this year".

    Of course, even at its most basic level - bypassing a DVD's CSS technology - Slysoft's code is verboten in the US and Europe under the terms of, respectively, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) and EU Copyright Directives, all of which criminalise the act of circumventing any copyright protection mechanism.

    That's probably why Slysoft is based in Antigua. Though we hear the weather there's pretty pleasant too.
    Dr. Mordrid
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    For every genius DRM scheme someone makes, there is an opposite and equal genius ready to hack it.
    “Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out”
    –The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett

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    • #3
      unless of course the same genius hacker actually develops the DRM scheme. Then the argument will change to...

      For every genius/hacker DRM scheme someone makes, there will be a smarter genius/hacker ready to hack it.

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